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Gallery: Carrbrook invaded by dozens of scarecrows as first festival launched

*Images by Gemma Carter Carrbrook’s first scarecrow festival is proving a massive hit, with dozens of creations appearing all over the village. From farmers in…

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Armed Forces Day to parade online

Gemma Carter June 20, 2020 No Comments Cllr Ged Cooney Lockdown tameside armed forces day online Tameside Correspondent tameside libraries and culture Tameside News uk armed forces day

ARMED Forces Day may not be going ahead as usual this year, but Tameside will still be paying its annual salute to the army, navy…

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Carrbrook’s first scarecrow festival launched

Gemma Carter June 19, 2020 No Comments carrbrook news carrbrook scarecrow festival 2020 Carrbrook Village Community community event community events gallery gemma carter scarecrow making Stalybridge News straw summer fetival Tameside Correspondent Tameside events Tameside News Tameside Newspaper village Walking

CARRBROOK residents have reached the ‘final straw’ in lockdown – by hosting the area’s first ever scarecrow festival. The event, launching today, June 19, has…

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Bands take to Roughtown streets for Whit Friday

Aimee Belmore June 11, 2020 No Comments alan bishop band contest brass band Mossley Mossley News music roughtown Tameside Correspondent Tameside News whit friday

THERE were not the usual sights and sounds of brass bands marching on Whit Friday this year – so residents in Roughtown set up their…

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Life during lockdown – one man’s photo diary

Tony Bugby June 10, 2020 No Comments bomKnights photography coronavirus COVID-19 Dane Bank Denton News Paul Jarrett Dane Bank photo diary lockdown photogrpahy Tameside Correspondent Tameside News

A PHOTOGRAPHER is taking his camera on his daily exercise walks to get a snapshot of life in lockdown. And Paul Jarrett, of Thornley Road…

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Compilation album could be antidote to summertime blues

Trevor Baxter June 8, 2020 No Comments alex bennett hyde fargisa gardenback hyde music Hyde News NHS covid19 appeal owed summer charity album Tameside Correspondent tameside music Tameside News the be positives the big peach music

A HYDE man hopes a new project will strike the right chord with music lovers across Manchester. Alex Bennett and his girlfriend Georgie Brooke have…

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Whit Friday moves online for 2020

Gemma Carter June 2, 2020 No Comments brass band committee tameside brass bands cllr leanne feeley correspondent newspaper digital festival Fodens band Lockdown music online Tameside Council Tameside News tameside whit friday

THE streets will be quiet, the venues will be empty, and there will be no coaches criss-crossing the borough – but the best of brass…

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Banner headlines! Sending out message of support for key workers

Trevor Baxter May 30, 2020 No Comments award winning artist cartoonist hyde cartoonist Hyde News Ian Hislop keyworkers NHS private eye Stephen Fry Tameside Correspondent Tameside News Tony Husband

AN award-winning Hyde cartoonist, whose work has featured in Private Eye to Playboy, Punch to The Times, is collaborating on a new body of work.…

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Tameside loves reading: libraries see surge in online borrowing

Gemma Carter May 18, 2020 No Comments borrow online borrowbox app cllr leanne feeley e-book press reader stalybridge library tameside books online Tameside Council Tameside libraries Tameside library Tameside News

Tameside’s libraries have reported a surge in online borrowing during the coronavirus lockdown as the nation seeks escapism and comfort in e-books. Loans of online…

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Singers get in on the Facebook act

Tony Bugby May 12, 2020 No Comments andrew richardson facebook Hyde News hyde past and present Tameside Tameside Correspondent

LOCAL singers and pop artists have the chance to show what they can do without leaving their own front room. And in some cases it…